RubyProgramowanie Authors: David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto I picked up this book, co-authored by Ruby creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, to learn Ruby for my work with Chef. As a deep dive into the language’s internals, it brilliantly explains why Ruby is a top choice for creating Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) like those used in Vagrant and Chef. The book meticulously covers the language’s core, which gave me a solid understanding of its architecture. ...
GITRozproszony system kontroli wersji Author: Włodzimierz Gajda
Getting Things DoneCzyli sztuka bezstresowej efektywności Author: David Allen My first encounter with the “Getting Things Done” methodology actually happened thanks to the book “Time Management: Strategies for System Administrators” - when I was still a student. The idea of creating paper lists with tasks seemed a bit crazy to me at the time, but as a geek, I was always on the lookout for apps, and tools that could help. ...
Rzecz o istocie informatykiAlgorytmika Authors: David Harel, Yishai Feldman
Więcej perełek oprogramowaniaWyznania programisty Author: Jon Bentley
Krótka historia czasuOd Wielkiego Wybuchu do czarnych dziur Author: Stephen Hawking
Perełki oprogramowaniaSeria Klasyka informatyki Author: Jon Bentley I’ve read few books about algorithms, but this one was my favorite. It’s not a handbook/manual style, where you have all algorithms explained - it’s rather a feast for though. From this book I learned principles like: “divide and conquer” (or how I prefer it: whatever you can, divide by two 😄). It might not be that obvious at first, but practical use cases are unlimited. My personal favorite is hanging the curtains: you start at edges, then in the middle, then you divide again and again until you have them perfectly symmetric. Of course, the most common use case are sorting algorithms, but even with those understanding why Quick Sort is not the best one, and Heap Sort wins competition allowed me to surprise many people from DBAs to Senior Software Engineers - they didn’t know! ...
Zarządzanie czasemStrategie dla administratorów systemów Author: Thomas Limoncelli This book was my first introduction to task management and “Getting Things Done” methodology. At this time I was still a student, and as it was referenced in this book I was performing backups of servers on the tapes (HP LTO). So this small tip on how often to change tapes, made my life easier. I also implemented Nagios in the company where I was working to improve monitoring. I also ...
GłębiaAuthor: Lincoln Child I received this book as a present from my wife. It didn’t look exceptional, just something random, but she really hit the mark. Although I don’t remember the plot details perfectly after all these years, it was a very good book. Warning ...
Bezpieczeństwo sieciNarzędzia Authors: Nitesh Dhanjani, Justin Clarke